Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Carol: [from trailer] I didn`t want to wake you up, but I really wanted to show you something. Carol: [From trailer]
[after Max being crowned King of the Wild Things]
Carol: Hey King! What`s your first order of business?
Max: Let the wild rumpus start!
Carol: [from trailer] It`s going to be a place where only the things you want to happen, would happen.
Max: [from trailer] We could totally build a place like that!
[from trailer]
Carol: This is all yours. You`re the owner of this world.
[from trailer]
Max: [looking over at giant dog in desert] What`s that?
Carol: Oh, It`s that dog. Don`t feed it, he`ll just follow you around.
[from trailer]
Carol: I want you to be king forever.
Max: Definitely.
[from trailer]
Carol: Now you are king and you will be a truly great king.
[from trailer]
KW: I don`t won`t you to go, I`ll eat you up I love you so.
Ira: [from trailer] Hi, I`m Ira. I put the holes in the trees.
Carol: If I was stranded on a desert island and could only take one thing, it`d be Douglas. We can share him if you want.
Alexander: I hate this tree!
Judith: Happiness isn`t always the best way to be happy.
Max: The vampire bites off the top of a building and loses his teeth. Another vampire says, `Why are you crying? Those are your baby teeth.` And he says, `No they`re not. They`re my adult teeth.`
Max: Did you make this?
Carol: Yeah, yeah.
Max: It`s very good.
Carol: We were gonna make a whole world like this. Now, everyone used to come here, but you know... you know what it feels like when all your teeth are falling out really slowly and you don`t realize and then you notice that, well, they`re really far apart. And then one day... you don`t have any teeth anymore.
Max: Yeah.
Carol: Well it was like that.
Trivia
Eric Goldberg was at one point attached to direct.
The open call for Max was huge. It took several months and thousands of boys auditioned from several countries worldwide.
Spike Jonze was approached by Maurice Sendak and was asked to take on the film adaptation. A movie had been on the burner since the early 90s, and Mr. Sendak had not been able to find anyone fitting to take it on.
The creatures are being portrayed by actors in 6-8 foot tall costumes, with some additional animatronics, and computer-generated faces. The costumes were created by The Jim Henson Company, who were responsible for the Muppets and Labyrinth creatures.
Throughout the writing process, Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers kept in close contact with Maurice Sendak, consulting and sharing script changes, models of the monsters, etc.
It has been said that actors in the monster costumes would wear the head for no more than half an hour at a time, after which they would have 10-15 minute breaks in front of an air conditioner. Stunt performers would remain fully suited for hours at a time, without air conditioning.
Numerous cameras followed the actors around to impress their expressions and feelings. The images would then be digitally "infused" onto the faces of the puppets and would follow the actors` performances.
Originally, the film had a May 2008 release, which was pushed back to October 2008, after that, it was pushed back to a 2009 release.
Filming began in 2005.
Early development of a film version was leaning towards a fully-animated film.
Other actors auditioning for the role of Max included Griffin Armstorff, Jackson Pace and Bobby Coleman.
The film was originally set for release from Universal, but disagreements with Spike Jonze led to him taking the film to Warner Bros.
Michelle Williams was at one point cast to voice one of the Wild Things, but the role went to Lauren Ambrose. The reason given by the filmmakers for this was that Williams` voice didn`t match what they`re going for.
Initially, Warner Brothers studio was so unhappy with Spike Jonze`s final movie (it was much less family friendly than they imagined) that they wanted to re-shoot the whole $75 milion project in early 2008. Jonze was eventually given some more time and money by the studio in order to make the final product satisfying to both, the studio and himself.
Though their names are not mentioned in the book, Maurice Sendak named the Wild Things after his aunts and uncles: Bernard, Tzippeh, Aaron, Moishe, etc. The Wild Things have names in the film, but are not named after Sendak`s aunts and uncles.
In Max Records` previous film The Brothers Bloom (2008), he played Mark Ruffalo`s character when he was young. Ruffalo and Records co-star together in this film.
This is the first time any of the cast members appears in a movie released on IMAX screens.
Lauren Ambrose described her character as a "eight-foot-tall Neanderthal, that looks just like her".
Chloë Sevigny auditioned for the role of KW.
In July 2006, less than six weeks before the start of shooting, the Henson-built monster suits arrived at the Melbourne soundstage where Spike Jonze and his crew had set up their offices. The actors climbed inside and began moving around. Right away, Jonze could see that the heads were absurdly heavy. Only one of the actors appeared able to walk in a straight line. A few of them called out from within their costumes that they felt like they were going to tip over. Jonze and the production crew had no choice but to tell the Henson people to tear apart the 50-pound heads and remove the remote-controlled mechanical eyeballs. This meant that all the facial expressions would have to be generated in post-production, using computers.
Max Records`s favorite scene in the original book, is when Max meet a sea monster. That scene is however not included in the film.
Spike Jonze turned down the chance to make the movie fully animated, because he wanted people to feel the Wild Things, and thought it would be more exciting and dangerous, if a real kid were running around with the wild things.
All the original songs in the movie were written and preformed by Karen Orzolek, credited as her stage name Karen O., the lead singer of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She dated director Spike Jonze at the time of production. They have since broken up.
A early test scene made by Disney back when the movie was expected to done through hand-drawn animation featured Max in his wolf suit carving his name onto his bed with a fork and then chasing his dog (which appeared to be a basset hound) down the stairs. The opening scene of the final film is a homage to this, as it begins with Max chasing his dog with a fork down the stairs (the dog`s breed has been changed). The original scene can now be found on YouTube.
The studio decided not to position the film as a kids movie and spent 70% of the media for it on broad based and adult driven buys.
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